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Nikita
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Nikita
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1yr
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Spent quite some time on these, but probably more due to drawing digitally. I make all women quite masculine
Tried to do the exercise with a pencil and paper, and tried to push the speed, feels a lot more comfortable, but still everyone except the curvy woman look too masculine
Nikita
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1yr
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I feel like I'm more copying than translating the energy in my own unique shape design, it's actually feels a lot harder than proportions, I guess will check the demo and critiques and compare my thought process
Nikita
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1yr
A lay-in of a head from art school, eyes are very complex to draw when you dont understand the structure, ear is too big and hair shape is off here , but fixed it after taken the photo
Nikita
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1yr
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Tried to eyeball a lot because I do kind of the same thing in art school with measuring from real object, not the best result ahah, but some things pretty close ( I tried to do photoshop feedback thing but I don't understand how Stand adjusts contrasts with layers, I have a hard edge that covers half the picture if I try to reproduce the steps )
Nikita
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1yr
Tried to get something interesting from doodles in sketchbook. My brain just stops working when I try to position something in 3d space from imagination
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1yr
Yeah, it can be quite a brain teaser to draw from imagination, so you're definitely not alone. You could consider it almost a completely different skill from observational drawing, so practicing both side by side like you are already doing is very beneficial to your art progress. The Drawing Basics course will soon cover 3D forms, which is key to creating believable forms from imagination as these act as the building blocks for everything. For now I think this video explains it well: https://www.proko.com/s/sZsC and you might like Marshall Vandruff's Heinrech Kley series, as it's very informative and inspiring on imaginative drawing: https://youtu.be/NJYnHNCmHFY But keep it up, you're on the right track! :D
Nikita
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1yr
Hello, would love to see critiques, thanks in advance.
I kind feel that lost focus on parrot and started to do contours
Nikita
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1yr
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Masters:
Cris Metzen (bear thing creature)
Tatsuki Fujimoto (Girl with horns)
Kentaro Miura (Girl without horns)
I feel like I completely failed the exercise, most of my lines look the same and I'm not even sure should've I tried to ink stuff since I'm complete noob with it, especially brush pen (girl with horns).
Furbolg was done with liner and I kind of like it more but it's still feels like messy lines, where when you look at Metzen sketch - it shows fur. It's kind of funny to look demo or critiques and easily observe and understand line types and differencies but when you start doing it yourself its just 3 lines that you're able to execute : thin, thicker, super-thick.
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1yr
I think these were pretty successful, especially the ink examples. They show your understanding and careful attention towards line weight and variation. The pencil study also shows some variation but it could have a greater range, though you could just be being limited by the pencil itself. I would recommend (re)visiting this video to assess your sharpening/grip: https://www.proko.com/s/M8iG
When it comes to using line to render fur, something I noticed in the original was that it used the tapering to indicate volume, both by curving around the "egg" shape of the arm and adding the heaviest line weight at the core shadow. You could try tapering strokes or playing around with different line variations in a single stroke as a warmup, but you're on the right track. I hope this helps :)
